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There are many benefits to owning your home vs. renting but purchasing your first home can be intimidating. The good news is there are several easy things you can do to prepare in advance to make your home buying experience much smoother.

For decades, common wisdom held that the best time to sell a house was January. But get on the Internet, and you will find highly convincing articles that make it crystal clear that the absolute best time to sell your house is May. Definitely. Or March and April. Maybe June. Definitely June. Or not.

It seems that every organization, every hobby, and every store offers its own credit card now, and most have some very attractive rewards. So how do you choose between one card and the next?

Whenever you undertake any big financial change, the first thing to do is to check your credit score. The three major credit bureaus are required to provide you with a free credit report annually. You just have to initiate the request.

When you decide that it is time to own your own home, you will find that in addition to the basic questions of what and where, there is an alphabet soup of terminology to contend with related to the mortgage loan itself.

In the middle of an economic downturn, it is common for auto dealerships to put some really eye-catching deals out to create car buying interest.

When you are considering repairs to your home or a remodeling project, two questions come to mind first: What do we want to do, and how do we afford it?

Checking accounts used to be fairly straightforward; you put money in an account, and checks were drawn on the balance. But those days are definitely over!

While we are increasingly comfortable buying consumer goods directly from online businesses, buying a car might seem like a stretch.

While carrying a certain amount of debt is both common and sometimes even advised as a way to build credit, it can readily spiral out of control.

Used vehicles are increasingly popular with Americans as consumers turn to the used market for more affordable options, but a recent survey from Ally finds many Americans still hold outdated notions about used cars.

Writing a business plan is an essential part of building a successful business. At its core, a business plan is a road map for your project: it establishes your purpose, it sets goals and expectations, and it forecasts the relationship between cost and revenue.

Even if you love your home, there’s a chance it isn’t in your ideal place to live. But the space between fantasizing about your dream location and actually moving there is potentially miles and thousands of dollars apart.

The average person moves residences about 11 times in their lifetime. That provides a lot of opportunity to confront the following question: is it better to own your home or to rent it?

Consumer debt is an extremely contradictory part of our personal finances: it’s at once common and incredibly personal.

A personal loan can help you consolidate high-interest credit card debt into a single, lower-interest loan. These loans can also be used for a variety of other things.

Being a homeowner can be an extremely rewarding experience. Making a house into your home creates feelings of pride and security, but it also comes with a lot of responsibility and expense.

All over the country, housing prices are soaring and markets are on fire, which may be leaving you wondering how exactly housing prices are determined and what affects these markets.

Credit cards are an everyday part of most people’s lives. From making purchases to providing some extra financial cushion, there are lots of positive to appreciate about that little piece of plastic.

A new study from online loan marketplace, LendingTree, finds that older Americans tend to have the best credit scores.